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American Dreaming: Immigrant Life on the Marginsby Sarah J. MahlerISBN 0691037825 (0-691-03782-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in Americaby Paul AvrichISBN 0691044945 (0-691-04494-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Ancient near East in Pictures Relating to the Old Testament with Supplementby James B. PritchardISBN 0691035024 (0-691-03502-4)
Hardcover, Princeton University Press
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Ancient Near Eastern Texts: Relating to the Old Testament With Supplementby James B. PritchardISBN 0691035032 (0-691-03503-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ancient Near Eastern Texts: Relating to the Old Testament With Supplement'Book summary:This anthology brought together the most important historical, legal, mythological, liturgical, and secular texts of the ancient Near East, with the purpose of providing a rich contextual base for understanding the people, cultures, and literature of the Old Testament. A scholar of religious thought and biblical archaeology, James Pritchard recruited the foremost linguists, historians, and archaeologists to select and translate the texts. The goal, in his words, was "a better understanding of the likenesses and differences which existed between Israel and the surrounding cultures." Before the publication of these volumes, students of the Old Testament found themselves having to search out scattered books and journals in various languages. This anthology brought these invaluable documents together, in one place and in one language, thereby expanding the meaning and significance of the Bible for generations of students and readers. As one reviewer put it, "This great volume is one of the most notable to have appeared in the field of Old Testament scholarship this century."
Princeton published a follow-up companion volume, The Ancient Near East in Pictures Relating to the Old Testament (1954), and later a one-volume abridgment of the two, The Ancient Near East: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures (1958). The continued popularity of this work in its various forms demonstrates that anthologies have a very important role to play in education--and in the mission of a university press.
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The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacificby Gananath ObeyesekereISBN 0691036217 (0-691-03621-7)
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Archaeology and the Old Testament.by James Bennett PritchardISBN 0691035083 (0-691-03508-3)
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Art Forms and Civic Life in the Late Roman Empireby H.P. L'OrangeISBN 0691038023 (0-691-03802-3)
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Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policyby Henry ShueISBN 0691029296 (0-691-02929-6)
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Before the Computer: Ibm, Ncr, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865-1956by James W. Cortada, James W. CoradaISBN 069104807X (0-691-04807-X)
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Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, 1664-1730by Joyce D. GoodfriendISBN 0691037876 (0-691-03787-6)
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Behind the Front Lines of the Civil War: Political Parties and Social Movements in Russia, 1918-1922by Vladimir N. BrovkinISBN 0691032785 (0-691-03278-5)
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Between Mutiny and Obedience: The Case of the French Fifth Infantry Division During World War Iby Leonard V. SmithISBN 0691033048 (0-691-03304-8)
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Brother Woodrow: A Memoir of Woodrow Wilsonby Stockton Axson, Arthur Stanley LinkISBN 0691032556 (0-691-03255-6)
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Charles Darwin: Voyaging A Biographyby E. J. BrowneISBN 0691026068 (0-691-02606-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charles Darwin: Voyaging A Biography'Book summary:Few lives of great men offer so much interest--and so many mysteries--as the life of Charles Darwin, the greatest figure of nineteenth-century science, whose ideas are still inspiring discoveries and controversies more than a hundred years after his death. Yet only now, with the publication of Voyaging, the first of two volumes that will constitute the definitive biography, do we have a truly vivid and comprehensive picture of Darwin as man and as scientist. Drawing upon much new material, supported by an unmatched acquaintance with both the intellectual setting and the voluminous sources, Janet Browne has at last been able to unravel the central enigma of Darwin's career: how did this amiable young gentleman, born into a prosperous provincial English family, grow into a thinker capable of challenging the most basic principles of religion and science? The dramatic story of Voyaging takes us from agonizing personal challenges to the exhilaration of discovery; we see a young, inquisitive Darwin gradually mature, shaping, refining, and finally setting forth the ideas that would at last fall upon the world like a thunderclap in The Origin of Species.
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Cinematernity: Film, Motherhood, Genreby Lucy FischerISBN 0691037744 (0-691-03774-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cinematernity: Film, Motherhood, Genre'Book summary:Noting that motherhood is a common metaphor for film production, Lucy Fischer undertakes the first investigation of how the topic of motherhood presents itself throughout a wide range of film genres. Until now discussions of maternity have focused mainly on melodramas, which, along with musicals and screwball comedies, have traditionally been viewed as "women's" cinema. Fischer defies gender-based classifications to show how motherhood has played a fundamental role in the overall cinematic experience. She argues that motherhood is often treated as a site of crisis--for example, the mother being blamed for the ills afflicting her offspring--then shows the tendency of certain genres to specialize in representing a particular social or psychological dimension in the thematics of maternity.Drawing on social history and various cultural theories, Fischer first looks at Rosemary's Baby to show the prevalence of childbirth themes in horror films. In crime films (White Heat), she sees the linkage of male deviance and mothering. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and The Guardian, both occult thrillers, uncover cultural anxieties about working mothers. Her discussion covers burlesques of male mothering, feminist documentaries on the mother-daughter relationship, trick films dealing with procreative metaphors, and postmodern films like High Heels, where fluid sexuality is the theme. These films tend to treat motherhood as a locus of irredeemable conflict, whereas History and Memory and High Tide propose a more sanguine, dynamic, and enabling view. [via]
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Clear and Simple As the Truth: Writing Classic Proseby Mark Turner, Francis-Noel ThomasISBN 0691029172 (0-691-02917-2)
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Consumer Rites: The Buying & Selling of American Holidaysby Leigh Eric SchmidtISBN 0691029806 (0-691-02980-6)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Courts on Trial Myth and Reality in American Justiceby Jerome FrankISBN 0691027552 (0-691-02755-2)
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Democracy and Difference: Contesting Boundaries of the Politicalby Seyla BenhabibISBN 0691044783 (0-691-04478-3)
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Diodorus Siculus and the First Centuryby Kenneth S. SacksISBN 0691036004 (0-691-03600-4)
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The Eclipse of Community: An Interpretation of American Studiesby Maurice Robert SteinISBN 0691028133 (0-691-02813-3)
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The Econometrics of Financial Marketsby Andrew W. Lo, John Y. Campbell, Archie Craig MacKinlayISBN 0691043019 (0-691-04301-9)
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Each chapter develops statistical techniques within the context of a particular financial application. This exciting new text contains a unique and accessible combination of theory and practice, bringing state-of-the-art statistical techniques to the forefront of financial applications. Each chapter also includes a discussion of recent empirical evidence, for example, the rejection of the Random Walk Hypothesis, as well as problems designed to help readers incorporate what they have read into their own applications
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The Economic Development of Japan: Growth and Structural Changeby William W. LockwoodISBN 0691030146 (0-691-03014-6)
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Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Timesby Donald B. RedfordISBN 0691036063 (0-691-03606-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times'Book summary:Covering the time span from the Palaeolithic period to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC, Egyptologist Donald Redford explores 3000 years of uninterrupted contact between Egypt and Western Asia across the Sinai land-bridge. He presents a sweeping narrative of the love-hate relationship between the peoples of ancient Israel/Palestine and Egypt. Who were the Egyptians, Canaanites and Hebrews? Why did Egypt act like a magnet on the peoples of Palestine? And what did Egypt see in the area later called the Holy Land? Why did she create an empire there? In answering these questions, Redford argues that Egypt's attitude arose from a fundamental position adopted toward Asia in general. This stance was taken up by Pharaonic civilization centuries before the Israelites appeared and prevailed long after the end of the Biblical period. [via]
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Elizabeth I: War and Politics 1588-1603by Wallace T. MacCaffreyISBN 0691036519 (0-691-03651-9)
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Enchanted Maidens: Gender Relations in Spanish Folktales of Courtship and Marriageby James M. TaggartISBN 0691028524 (0-691-02852-4)
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Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third Worldby Arturo EscobarISBN 0691034095 (0-691-03409-5)
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The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe Ca. 1200 B.C.by Robert DrewsISBN 0691025916 (0-691-02591-6)
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Environment, Scarcity, and Violenceby Thomas F. Homer-DixonISBN 0691027943 (0-691-02794-3)
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The Eternal Darkness: A Personal History of Deep-Sea Explorationby Robert D. Ballard, Will HivelyISBN 0691027404 (0-691-02740-4)
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Exploitationby Alan WertheimerISBN 0691027420 (0-691-02742-0)
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Fatal Women: Lesbian Sexuality and the Mark of Aggressionby Lynda HartISBN 069103379X (0-691-03379-X)
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From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Roleby Fareed ZakariaISBN 0691044961 (0-691-04496-1)
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The lessons Zakaria learns from the example of America have useful applications to contemporary political science; one might consider, for example, the ways in which a politically unified Germany or a economically powerful Japan differs from the 19th-century America that was politically and economically strong; the presence of both qualities would appear to be required for a nation to flex its muscles on the international scene. Although it never quite completely answers the "why," From Wealth to Power does extremely well on the "how" and the even more important "so?" [via]
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Game Theory for Applied Economistsby Robert GibbonsISBN 0691043086 (0-691-04308-6)
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The Garden in the Machine: The Emerging Science of Artificial Lifeby Claus Emmeche, Steven SampsonISBN 0691029032 (0-691-02903-2)
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The Golden Legendby Jacobus, Jacobus Devoragine, William Granger RyanISBN 0691031789 (0-691-03178-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Legend'Book summary:Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of both factual and fictional stories--some preposterous, some profound, and some shocking--The Golden Legend was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. It was compiled around 1260 by Jacobus de Voragine, a scholarly friar and eventual archbishop of Genoa, whose purpose was to captivate, encourage, and edify the faithful, while preserving a vast store of information pertaining to the legends and traditions of the church. In his new translation, the first in English of the complete text, William Granger Ryan captures the immediacy of this rich, image-filled work, and offers an important guide for readers interested in medieval art and literature and, more generally, in popular religious culture.
These stories have the effect of bringing the saints to life as real people, in the context of late thirteenth-century living, but in them the saints do things that ordinary people can only wonder at. There is St. Juliana, who, fed up with the propositions of a dull-witted demon, gives him a sound thrashing and tosses him in the sewer; St. Hilary, who challenges the authority of a corrupt pope and foresees the prelate's death; and St. James the Dismembered, who, with the chopping off of each body part by the Roman executioner, joyfully proclaims yet another reason for loving God.
In the course of reading these stories, which are arranged according to the order of saints' feast days throughout the liturgical year, we happen upon many fascinating cultural and historical topics, such as the Christianization of Roman holidays, the symbolism behind the monk's tonsure, Nero's "pregnancy, " and the reason whychaste but hot-blooded women can grow beards. At the same time these stories draw abundantly on Holy Scripture to shed light on the mysteries of the Christian faith. The chapters devoted to Christ and to the Blessed Virgin are particularly moving examples of the mingling of doctrine and narrative to give life to dogma. [via]
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The Handbook Of Economic Sociologyby Neil J. Smelser, Richard SwedbergISBN 0691044856 (0-691-04485-6)
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Hobbesian Moral and Political Theoryby Gregory S. KavkaISBN 069102765X (0-691-02765-X)
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In Quest of the Sacred Baboon: A Scientist's Journeyby Hans Kummer, M. Ann Biederman-ThorsonISBN 0691037019 (0-691-03701-9)
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Individual Strategy and Social Structure: An Evolutionary Theory of Institutionsby H. Peyton YoungISBN 069102684X (0-691-02684-X)
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An Intellectual History of Liberalismby Pierre Manent, Rebecca BalinskiISBN 0691029113 (0-691-02911-3)
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The author traces the liberal stance to Machiavelli, who, in seeking to divorce everyday life from the pervasive influence of the Catholic church, separated politics from all notions of a cosmological order. What followed, as Manent demonstrates in his analyses of Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, Guizot, and Constant, was the evolving concept of an individual with no goals outside the confines of the self and a state with no purpose but to prevent individuals from dominating one another. Weighing both the positive and negative effects of such a political arrangement, Manent raises important questions about the fundamental political issues of the day, among them the possibility of individual rights being reconciled with the necessary demands of political organization, and the desirability of a government system neutral about religion but not about public morals.
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Introduction to Mathematical Logicby Alonzo ChurchISBN 0691029067 (0-691-02906-7)
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The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panicby Hadley CantrilISBN 0691028273 (0-691-02827-3)
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Isaiah Berlinby John GrayISBN 0691026351 (0-691-02635-1)
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The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italyby Peter BurkeISBN 0691028389 (0-691-02838-9)
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Jefferson's Memorandum Books: Accounts, With Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826by Thomas Jefferson, Lucia C. Stanton, James Adam BearISBN 0691047197 (0-691-04719-7)
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Kant and the Capacity to Judge: Sensibility and Discursivity in the Transcendental Analytic of the Critique of Pure Reasonby Beatrice LonguenesseISBN 0691043485 (0-691-04348-5)
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Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Factsby Steve Woolgar, Bruno LatourISBN 069102832X (0-691-02832-X)
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Liberal Modernism and Democratic Individuality: George Kateb and the Practices of Politicsby Austin Sarat, Dana Richard VillaISBN 0691025959 (0-691-02595-9)
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Liberalism's Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnikby Ira Katznelson, Adam MichnikISBN 0691034389 (0-691-03438-9)
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The Lockean Theory of Rightsby A. John SimmonsISBN 0691037817 (0-691-03781-7)
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Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italyby Robert Leonardi, Robert D. Putnam, Raffaella NanettiISBN 0691037388 (0-691-03738-8)
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The Making of Urban America: A History of City Planning in the United Statesby John William RepsISBN 0691045259 (0-691-04525-9)
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Masters of Bedlam: The Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Tradeby Andrew Scull, Charlotte MacKenzie, Nicholas HerveyISBN 0691034117 (0-691-03411-7)
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Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanicsby John Von NeumannISBN 0691028931 (0-691-02893-1)
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A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Lawby Amy Gutmann, Antonin Scalia, Gordon S. Wood, Laurence H. Tribe, Ronald Dworkin, May Ann GlendonISBN 0691026300 (0-691-02630-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law'Book summary:We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a judge like this can maneuver through earlier cases to achieve the desired aim--"distinguishing one prior case on his left, straight-arming another one on his right, high-stepping away from another precedent about to tackle him from the rear, until (bravo!) he reaches the goal--good law." But is this common-law mindset, which is appropriate in its place, suitable also in statutory and constitutional interpretation? In a witty and trenchant essay, Justice Scalia answers this question with a resounding negative.In exploring the neglected art of statutory interpretation, Scalia urges that judges resist the temptation to use legislative intention and legislative history. In his view, it is incompatible with democratic government to allow the meaning of a statute to be determined by what the judges think the lawgivers meant rather than by what the legislature actually promulgated. Eschewing the judicial lawmaking that is the essence of common law, judges should interpret statutes and regulations by focusing on the text itself. Scalia then extends this principle to constitutional law. He proposes that we abandon the notion of an everchanging Constitution and pay attention to the Constitution's original meaning. Although not subscribing to the "strict constructionism" that would prevent applying the Constitution to modern circumstances, Scalia emphatically rejects the idea that judges can properly "smuggle" in new rights or deny old rights by using the Due Process Clause, for instance. In fact, such judicial discretion might lead to the destruction of the Bill of Rights if a majority of the judges ever wished to reach that most undesirable of goals. [via]
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The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Historiesby Partha ChatterjeeISBN 0691033056 (0-691-03305-6)
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Neuronal Man: The Biology of Mindby Jean-Pierre Changeux, Laurence GareyISBN 0691026661 (0-691-02666-1)
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New Atlantis Revisited: Akademgorodok, the Siberian City of Scienceby Paul R. JosephsonISBN 0691044546 (0-691-04454-6)
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On the Edge of Anarchy: Locke, Consent, and the Limits of Societyby A. John SimmonsISBN 069104483X (0-691-04483-X)
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The Permanence of the Political: A Democratic Critique of the Radical Impulse to Transcend Politicsby Joseph M. SchwartzISBN 0691033579 (0-691-03357-9)
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Persuasive Images: Posters of War and Revolution from the Hoover Institution Archivesby Peter Paret, Paul Paret, Beth Irwin Lewis, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and PeaceISBN 0691032041 (0-691-03204-1)
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Phantoms of Remembrance: Memory and Oblivion at the End of the First Millenniumby Patrick J. GearyISBN 0691026033 (0-691-02603-3)
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The Photograph and the American Indianby Alfred L. Bush, Lee Clark MitchellISBN 0691034893 (0-691-03489-3)
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Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Childrenby Viviana A. ZelizerISBN 0691034591 (0-691-03459-1)
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Princeton Readings in Political Thought: Essential Texts Since Platoby Mitchell Cohen, Nicole FermonISBN 0691036896 (0-691-03689-6)
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Princeton Readings in Political Thought: Essential Texts Since Platoby Nicole Fermon, Mitchell CohenISBN 0691036888 (0-691-03688-8)
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Quantum Philosophy: Understanding and Interpreting Contemporary Scienceby Roland Omnes, Arturo SangalliISBN 0691027870 (0-691-02787-0)
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Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working Class Organizersby Staughton Lynd, Alice LyndISBN 0691028257 (0-691-02825-7)
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The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europeby Valerie I.J. FlintISBN 0691031657 (0-691-03165-7)
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Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Backgroundby Paul AvrichISBN 0691026041 (0-691-02604-1)
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Sense of Musicby Victor ZuckerkandlISBN 0691027005 (0-691-02700-5)
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Shattering Silence: Women, Nationalism, and Political Subjectivity in Northern Irelandby Begona AretxagaISBN 069103754X (0-691-03754-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shattering Silence: Women, Nationalism, and Political Subjectivity in Northern Ireland'Book summary:This book, the first feminist ethnography of the violence in Northern Ireland, is an analysis of a political conflict through the lens of gender. The case in point is the working-class Catholic resistance to British rule in Northern Ireland. During the 1970s women in Catholic/nationalist districts of Belfast organized themselves into street committees and led popular forms of resistance against the policies of the government of Northern Ireland and, after its demise, against those of the British. In the abundant literature on the conflict, however, the political tactics of nationalist women have passed virtually unnoticed. Begoña Aretxaga argues here that these hitherto invisible practices were an integral part of the social dynamic of the conflict and had important implications for the broader organization of nationalist forms of resistance and gender relationships.
Combining interpretative anthropology and poststructuralist feminist theory, Aretxaga contributes not only to anthropology and feminist studies but also to research on ethnic and social conflict by showing the gendered constitution of political violence. She goes further than asserting that violence affects men and women differently by arguing that the manners in which violence is gendered are not fixed but constantly shifting, depending on the contingencies of history, social class, and ethnic identity. Thus any attempt at subverting gender inequality is necessarily colored by other dimensions of political experience.
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Songs of Innocence and of Experienceby William Blake, Andrew LincolnISBN 0691037906 (0-691-03790-6)
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The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Changeby Hendrik SpruytISBN 0691029105 (0-691-02910-5)
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The author argues that feudalism did not give way to any single successor institution in simple linear fashion. Instead, individuals created a variety of institutional forms, such as the sovereign, territorial state in France, the Hanseatic League, and the Italian city-states, in reaction to a dramatic change in the medieval economic environment. Only in a subsequent selective phase of institutional evolution did sovereign, territorial authority prove to have significant institutional advantages over its rivals. Sovereign authority proved to be more successful in organizing domestic society and structuring external affairs. Spruyt's interdisciplinary approach not only has important implications for change in the state system in our time, but also presents a novel analysis of the general dynamics of institutional change.
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Speaking Minds: Interviews With Twenty Eminent Cognitive Scientistsby Peter Baumgartner, Sabine PayrISBN 0691036780 (0-691-03678-0)
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A Spinoza Reader: The Ethics and Other Worksby Benedict De Spinoza, Edwin CurleyISBN 0691033633 (0-691-03363-3)
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Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Realityby Siegfried KracauerISBN 0691037043 (0-691-03704-3)
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The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethicsby Martha C. NussbaumISBN 0691033420 (0-691-03342-0)
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The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalismby Gosta Esping-AndersenISBN 0691028575 (0-691-02857-5)
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Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolutionby T. H. BreenISBN 0691047294 (0-691-04729-4)
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Toleration: An Elusive Virtueby David HeydISBN 0691043701 (0-691-04370-1)
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The Uncollected Critical Writingsby Edith Wharton, Frederick WegenerISBN 0691043493 (0-691-04349-3)
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Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representationby Melissa S. WilliamsISBN 0691037140 (0-691-03714-0)
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Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Ageby Sylvia R. FreyISBN 0691047847 (0-691-04784-7)
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Whose Muse?: Art Museums and the Public Trustby Neil Macgregor, James B. Cuno, Glenn D. Lowry, James N. Wood, Philippe De Montebello, m John WalshISBN 0691032157 (0-691-03215-7)
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Works of Loveby Soren Kierkegaard, Howard Vincent Hong, Edna Hatlestad HongISBN 0691037922 (0-691-03792-2)
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The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginiaby Mechal SobelISBN 0691047472 (0-691-04747-2)
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The Zen Monastic Experience: Buddhist Practice in Contemporary Koreaby Robert E. BuswellISBN 069103477X (0-691-03477-X)
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